Sui Dynasty: I, Yang Guang, am both scrupulous and stable

Chapter 97 The Ivy League

Hearing that Yang Guang had an idea, Yang Jian immediately became interested. Yang Guang's ideas have always been very effective.

"any solution?"

"Father, remember what I said before about establishing schools among the nobles."

"Of course I remember, this must be done."

"Er Chen feels that we can establish such schools in various places and form an alliance of these schools. At the same time, the funding policy promulgated by the imperial court also has preferential policies such as having great scholars like Wang Fuzi come to give lectures from time to time. This alliance has Elimination mechanism.”

Yang Guang looked at Wang Long and continued: "These schools are assessed once a year, based on their scores. Those who fail to meet the standards will have their places canceled or downgraded."

Wang Long answered: "But Your Highness, Prince Jin, is this still the same? The most critical issue has not been solved?"

"No, these schools only admit the children of the nobles we have stipulated, and each family and surname has a quota every year. Those with excellent results in the assessment can directly enter the court as officials."

Yang Jian was a little puzzled by the fact that the school was only for nobles. This did not change anything, but instead strengthened class privileges.

"Assuming that the number of seats in the alliance school is eight, then after passing the assessment, the imperial court will issue an annual bonus. This is a reward for the school operators. The money will be a lot. The higher the ranking, the more. There will always be people from all over the country who are willing to do it. For For those descendants of the nobility who are slightly less valued, this is also an important channel for their personal career advancement."

"Although in the early stage they will all be children of aristocrats, as the examination system progresses and schools continue to pay attention to alliance subsidies, they will always try their best to find good seedlings. It is impossible for all smart children to be born in aristocratic families. No, Maybe the children of their family can help them win good rankings and get good subsidies every year."

"When they are forced by the insufficient abilities of the students in their own schools, they will find the smartest children among the people, train them, and help them win good rankings and good subsidies. In this way, they will help them to a certain extent. We select outstanding children among civilians and send them to the court."

Yang Jian looked at Yang Guang in surprise, wondering why his son's ideas were always so strange, but they seemed to be really useful.

The current system for selecting talents in the Sui Dynasty is based on the inspection and examination system. Talents will be selected from various places, and then the court will select them. There is no doubt that these selected talents are noble people from various places.

There are no low-ranking families at the top, and no nobles at the bottom.

This kind of class solidification has already taken shape and is very solid. Yang Jian understands the disadvantages of this solidification to his rule. The method Yang Guang mentioned today is equivalent to turning talents recommended by various places into recommendations from local schools. In theory, there is no difference. , the biggest difference is the examination, grading, and quota cancellation system. These systems will produce comparisons, and there will be promotions and demotions after the comparison.

In the past, the inspection and promotion system did not have any punishment measures. After all, it is impossible to say that everyone is discerning when recommending talents. If the recommended person is not capable enough, he will be punished and held accountable. So how can anyone recommend someone?
The alliance school system actually has no punishment measures, it just reduces the rewards they can get. If you get this large reward, but it will be gone next time, it is a disguised punishment, and people's hearts are always insufficient.

In the early stage, because the nobles must choose their own people, and the imperial court explicitly ordered that the school must select the children of local prominent families, and even limited the number of places for each family and surname, the actual recommended candidates did not change, and they could also get the money and silver rewarded by the imperial court, so why not for.

Once it takes shape and goes on year by year, there will always be people who break the rules and secretly use those smart children from poor families in order to get good grades, rankings and rewards. When the children from poor families are no longer good, then they will carefully select the smartest talents among the common people. , then everyone will follow, and it will ultimately be up to them to break this shackles.

To a certain extent, this is a variant of the scholarship system of those high-end schools. Good schools will use scholarships to attract talents in order to attract more students.

The system of the Sui Dynasty works in reverse, giving you high subsidies for your school. If you want to get the subsidy, you have to constantly find the smartest people to study in your school.

The examination is fair to a certain extent. The emperor cannot stare at each school and choose by examination. At least those children from poor families or the smartest people among the common people will have a chance.

Yang Jian then asked: "How much will it cost and how many years will it take to implement it?"

"It's hard to estimate money. It can take as short as four to five years or as long as ten years to achieve results."

Yang Jian could predict that although this plan sounded good, its actual implementation might require a lot of money, so much that prominent families from all over the country would be willing to put in the effort to do it.

"Father, for Sui Dynasty, the problems that money can solve are the simplest problems."

Yang Jian understood what Yang Guang meant. As long as this plan could be implemented without hindrance and only cost more money, the price was acceptable.

"My father can summon all the clan elders to announce this matter, and those who are interested can ask them to do it. Moreover, the school alliance can be divided into multiple levels. If the first-level alliance falls, it will not say that there is no subsidy at all, but it will become Subsidy from the second-level alliance makes people feel more at ease.”

Yang Jian thought for a while and said: "The idea is feasible to a certain extent, but you must not be able to spare your time to do this when you are in charge of the construction of Daxing City."

"In order to show the importance of the imperial court, my father can set up an education department to take charge of the grading and assessment of these schools. As long as the head of the department must be carefully selected, he must be highly respected and keen on education. My father, Mrs. Wang Right in front of you, I think he is the only one with the authority to do such a thing."

Yang Jian originally thought that Yang Guang had brought it up and he had to do it, but he didn't expect that Yang Guang would directly push the matter to Wang Long.

"Master Wang, are you interested in this matter?"

"I am willing to share your worries for Your Majesty. However, although His Highness King Jin's method was good, there are many things that I did not understand. I am afraid that I will have to trouble His Highness King Jin in the future. I also ask Your Highness Jin not to find me annoying."

"Master Wang, you are so polite. Please let me know and it's okay for me to go find you." Faced with Yang Guang, who was so polite, Wang Long bowed to him as a scholar.

Yang Jian was very satisfied with the arrangement of this matter. Things seemed to go particularly smoothly as soon as he met Yang Guang, and there were always wonderful ways that others could not think of.

"At this time, we will discuss it carefully for a while, and after we have settled on the details, we can give it a try. School Alliance, what would be a good name for this alliance?"

"It takes ten years to grow trees, a hundred years to cultivate people, a thousand years of planning, and ten thousand years of greening. My father, let's call it the Ivy League."

"Okay, okay, not bad. The idea is good and the name is good."

Yang Jian was in a very good mood and looked at Yang Guang and Yang Shuang with a smile.

"By the way, why did you and King Wei come to see me today?"

Only then did he realize that Yang Guang unexpectedly came to find him with Yang Shuang. The relationship between the two was not bad before, but it was not much good even if it was good. Why did they come to find him together.

Yang Shuang had just listened carefully and looked at Yang Guang with some appreciation. Now facing the emperor's question, he took out the fried noodles and dried vegetables made by Yang Guang and told Yang Jian from beginning to end.

Yang Jianming brought water to try it himself.

The dried vegetables are crunchy and crunchy, and the fried noodles and dough balls taste really good.

After eating it, I felt quite magical: "Amo, how did you come up with such a thing?"

"After listening to Uncle Wang's talk about the border issues, I realized that I couldn't help. So I remembered the saying that before the soldiers and horses move, they should go ahead with food and grass. I thought about starting from the direction of food and grass to see if I could help. Get busy."

"After asking about military rations, the biggest problem is actually transportation. The amount of food a frontline soldier needs to eat must be calculated at least twice as much during transportation. In other words, half of it may have to be consumed during transportation and storage. If it can be Saving transportation costs will save a lot of food, so I thought of making dried vegetables. Sun Zhenzhen said that when a person is healthy, his strength is sufficient, and the border soldiers should be allowed to eat vegetables occasionally. Dried vegetables are light and easy to transport."

Yang Guang continued: "The current army rations are mainly millet supplemented with rice cakes. Millet needs to be cooked, which means that fires need to be made in the wild. Although fried noodles also need water, they do not need to be boiled. Especially during marches and wars. There is no need to light a fire during the raid, and there are fewer flaws that can be discovered."

After hearing this, Yang Jian nodded with great satisfaction: "Yes, yes, what do you think of the almonds and walnuts in the fried noodles?"

"When I usually eat these things, I feel that these two items are very filling, so I tried adding them. Although it increased the cost, the effect was obvious."

In fact, Yang Guang added very little, but the aroma of sesame seeds is enough, and this little aroma can change a lot.

"This thing is pretty good. We can transport flour to the border. Let's make some at the border to see how the soldiers actually use it."

Yang Jian readily decided on the use of this military ration.

Yang Guang actually didn't get any practical benefits from this matter, but he understood that his behavior could greatly improve Yang Shuang's favorability towards him.

Yang Shuang is a general. When he was communicating with Yang Guang before, he mentioned the suffering of the border people, and it was as if he had experienced it himself. He could clearly feel the sincerity and enthusiasm.

He did good things for the border officers and also improved Yang Shuang's favorability, which was very good.

"Father, the minister there will leave first."

"Your Majesty, my brother is also leaving first."

"King Wei, please go see the prince when you have time. He has been acting inappropriately recently..."

Before he finished speaking, Yang Shuang understood what Yang Jian meant and agreed: "My brother understands."

After the two left, Wang Long said to Yang Jian: "Your Majesty, I feel that His Royal Highness the King of Jin is mature in mind and has plans far beyond those of ordinary people. He is a brave and resourceful person."

"Yes, this kid Amo is getting better and better."

Wang Long then praised: "His Royal Highness is polite and has a Confucian style."

Yang Jian said to himself somewhat dullly: "Confucianism, Confucianism."

(End of this chapter)